When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it would result in one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the ...

Selling skin care is no longer about just a pretty face. Beauty ads now carry so much scientific detail that consumers need the help of a medical dictionary. Going shopping for a skin cream? Better ...

“Trust in science is collapsing”—that’s the alarm we often hear. It’s not surprising, then, that recent years have seen major efforts to study the phenomenon and its dynamics in the general population ...

Lowering the tone in the history of science : a noble calling -- Cordelia's love : credibility and the social studies of science -- How to be antiscientific -- Science and prejudice in historical ...

THE strength of any nation — for peace or for war— is critically dependent on the strength and quality of its laboratories of pure and applied science. In 1940 there existed in this country a large, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On September 1, 1939, the same day that ...

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Nasa's Mars rover has made its "most unexpected" discovery since it landed on the red planet in 2012: rocks made of sulphur. On 30 May, the Curiosity rover "happened to drive over a rock and crack it ...

Science news this week: Super El Niño looms, an Acropolis marble fragment resurfaces, and a pure hexagonal diamond is born March 21, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well ...